Recommended Reading List
The Indigenous Law and Justice Hub have curated a list of recommended readings from leading academics and scholars on Indigenous legal issues, experiences and perspectives.
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Distinguished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson (Goenpul /Quandamooka)
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2000). Little bit woman: Representations of Indigenous women in White Australian feminism. Talkin’up to the white woman: Indigenous women and feminism, 94-125.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2004). Whiteness, Epistemology and Indigenous Representation. In Whitening Race: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism. (pp. 75–88). Aboriginal Studies Press.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2005). Patriarchal whiteness, self-determination and indigenous women: The invisibility of structural privilege and the visibility of oppression. In B. A. Hocking (Ed.), Unfinished Constitutional Business?: Rethinking Indigenous Self-determination (pp. 61–73). Aboriginal Studies Press.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2007). Epistemic violence: The hidden injuries of whiteness in Australian postcolonising borderlands. In S. Petrelli (Ed.), White matters/Il bianco in questione (pp. 299–312). Meltemi.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2011). The white man’s burden: Patriarchal White Epistemic Violence and Aboriginal Women’s Knowledges within the Academy. Australian Feminist Studies, 26(70), 413–431.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2011). Virtuous racial states: The possessive logic of patriarchal white sovereignty and the united nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples. Griffith Law Review, 20(3), 641–658.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2013). Towards an Australian Indigenous women’s standpoint theory: A methodological tool. Australian Feminist Studies, 28(78), 331–347.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2014). Imagining the good Indigenous citizen: Race war and the pathology of patriarchal white sovereignty. History, Power, Text: Cultural Studies and Indigenous Studies, 310–330.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2015). I still call Australia home: Indigenous belonging and place in a postcolonizing society. In The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty (pp. 3–18). University of Minnesota Press.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2015). The white possessive: Property, power, and indigenous sovereignty. University of Minnesota Press.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (Ed.). (2016). Critical indigenous studies: Engagements in first world locations. The University of Arizona Press.
Moreton-Robinson, A., & Walter, M. (2009). Indigenous methodologies in social research. M. Walter (Ed.), Social Research Methods (pp. 1–18). Oxford University Press.
Moreton-Robinson, A. M. (2004). The possessive logic of patriarchal white sovereignty: The High Court and the Yorta Yorta decision. Borderlands e-journal, 3(2).
Moreton‐Robinson, A. (1998). When the Object Speaks, A Postcolonial Encounter: anthropological representations and Aboriginal women's self-representation. Discourse: Studies in Cultural Politics of Education 19(3), 275-289.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2000). Talkin’ up to the white woman: Aboriginal women and feminism. University of Queensland Press.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2003). I still call Australia home: Indigenous belonging and place in a white postcolonizing society. In Sarah Ahmed, C. Castada, & A.-M. Fortier (Eds.), Uprootings/regroundings: Questions of home and migration (pp. 23–40). Berg Publishers.
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Professor Eve Tuck (Unangax̂)
Tuck, E. (2009). Suspending damage: A letter to communities. Harvard Educational Review, 79(3), 409–428.
Tuck, E. (2010). Breaking up with Deleuze: Desire and valuing the irreconcilable. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 23(5), 635–650.
Tuck, E., & Gaztambide-Fernández, R. A. (2013). Curriculum, replacement, and settler futurity. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 29(1).
Tuck, E., & Recollet, K. (2016). “ EJ” in Focus: Introduction to Native Feminist Texts. The English Journal, 106(1), 16–22.
Tuck, E., & Ree, C. (2013). A Glossary of haunting. In S. Holman Jones, T. E. Adams, & C. Ellis (Eds.), Handbook of Autoethnography (pp. 639–659). Routledge.
Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1), 1–40.
Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2014). Unbecoming Claims Pedagogies of Refusal in Qualitative Research. Qualitative Inquiry, 20(6), 811–818.
Arvin, M., Tuck, E., & Morrill, A. (2013). Decolonizing feminism: Challenging connections between settler colonialism and heteropatriarchy. Feminist formations, 8-34.
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Larissa Behrendt (Eualeyai / Gamillaroi)
Behrendt, L. (2013) “Aboriginal Sovereignty: A Practical Roadmap.” In Sovereignty: Frontiers of Possibility., edited by Julie Evans, Ann Genovese, Alexander Reilly, and Patrick Wolfe, 163–77. Hawaii: University of Hawai’i Press.
Behrendt, L. (2000). Consent in a (neo) colonial society: Aboriginal women as sexual and legal 'other'. Australian Feminist Studies, 15(33), 353-367.
Behrendt, L. (2005). Law stories and life stories: Aboriginal women, the law and Australian society. Australian Feminist Studies, 20(47), 245-254.
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Daniel Heath Justice OC (Cherokee)
Justice, D. H. (2011). Currents of Trans/national Criticism in Indigenous Literary Studies. American Indian Quarterly, 35(3), 334–352.
Justice, D. H. (2014). Indigenous writing. In Robert Warrior (Ed.), The world of indigenous North America (pp. 291–307). Routledge.
Justice, D. H. (2016). Reflections on Indigenous literary nationalism: On home grounds, singing hogs, and cranky critics. In Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies (pp. 37–44). Routledge.
Justice, D. H. (2018). Why Indigenous literatures matter. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press.
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Professor Brendan Hokowhitu (Ngāti Pūkenga, Māori)
Hokowhitu, B. (2021). The emperor’s ‘new’ materialisms: Indigenous materialisms and disciplinary colonialism. Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies, 131–146.
Hokowhitu, B., Moreton-Robinson, A., Tuhiwai-Smith, L., Andersen, C., & Larkin, S. (2020). Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies. Routledge.
Hokuwhitu, B. (2016). Monster: Post-Indigenous Studies. In Critical Indigenous Studies: Engagements in First World Locations (pp. 83–101). The University of Arizona Press.
Hokuwhitu, B. (2021). Introduction. In B. Hokuwhitu, A. Moreton-Robinson, L. T. Smith, C. Andersen, & S. Larkin (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies (pp. 1–6). Routledge.
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bell hooks
hooks, bell. (1994) “Columbus: Gone but Not Forgotten.” In Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations, 231–42. Routledge.
hooks, bell. (1991). Theory as Liberatory Practice. Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, 4(1), 1–12.
hooks, bell, Ferguson, R., & Minh-ha, T. T. (1990). Marginality as a site of resistance. In Out there: Marginalization and contemporary cultures (pp. 341–343). The MIT Press.
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Joanna Kidman (Ngāti Maniapoto/ Ngāti Raukawa, Māori)
Kidman, J. (2015). Indigenous youth, nationhood and the politics of belonging. Handbook of children and youth studies, 637-649.
Kidman, J. (2019). Whither decolonisation? Indigenous scholars and the problem of inclusion in the neoliberal university. Journal of Sociology, 56(2), 247–262.
Kidman, J., MacDonald, L., Funaki, H., Ormond, A., Southon, P., & Tomlins-Jahnkne, H. (2021). ‘Native time’ in the white city: Indigenous youth temporalities in settler-colonial space. Children’s Geographies, 19(1), 24–36.
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Irene Watson (Tanganekald, Meintangk Boandik)
Watson, I. (2018). First Nations, Indigenous Peoples: our laws have always been here. Indigenous peoples as subjects of international Law, 96-119.
Watson, Irene. (2012) “The Future Is Our Past: We Once Were Sovereign and We Still Are.” Indigenous Law Bulletin 8, no. 3: 12–15.
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Nicole Watson (Birri-Gubba)
Watson, N. (2013). What do we want? Not native title, that’s for bloody sure. In The Aboriginal Tent Embassy (pp. 316-330). Routledge.
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Alison Whittaker (Gomeroi)
Whittaker, A., & Watson, N. (2019). First Nations Women: Law, Power, Story.
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Professor Martin Nakata (Torres Strait Islander)
Nakata, M. (2007). Disciplining the savages: Savaging the disciplines. Aboriginal Studies Press.
Nakata, M. (2007). The cultural interface. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 36(5), 2–14.
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Associate Professor Sana Nakata (Torres Strait Islander)
Nakata, S. (2015). Childhood Citizenship, Governance and Policy: The Politics of Becoming Adult. Routledge.
Nakata, S. (2015). Representing indigenous Australian childhoods. Indigenous Law Bulletin, 8(17), 7.
Nakata, S. (2018). The infantilisation of Indigenous Australians: A problem for democracy. Griffith Review, 60, 104.
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Ambelin Kwaymullina (Palyku)
Kwaymullina, A., Kwaymullina, B., & Butterly, L. (2013). Living Texts: A Perspective on Published Sources, Indigenous Research Methodologies and Indigenous Worldviews. International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, 6(1).
Kwaymullina, A. S. T. (2017). Indigenous standpoints, indigenous stories, indigenous futures: Narrative from an indigenous standpoint in the twenty-first century and beyond.
Kwaymullina, Ambelin. “Aboriginal Nations, the Australian Nation-State and Indigenous International Legal Traditions.” Indigenous Peoples as Subjects of International Law, 2018, 5–17.
Kwaymullina, A. (2021). Literature, resistance, and first nations futures: Storytelling from an Australian indigenous women's standpoint in the twenty-first century and beyond. Westerly, 63(2), 140-153.
Kwaymullina, A. (2018). You are on Indigenous land: Ecofeminism, Indigenous peoples and land justice. In Feminist ecologies (pp. 193-208). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
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Maggie Walter (Palawa)
Walter, M. (2009). An Economy of Poverty? Power and the Domain of Aboriginality. International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, 2(1), 2–14
Walter, M., & Aitken, W. (2019). Situating Indigenous Knowledges and Governance Within the Academy in Australia. In E. McKinley & L. T. Smith (Eds.), Handbook of Indigenous Education (pp. 1–17). Springer.
Walter, M. M. (2010). The Politics of the Data: How the Australian Statistical Indigene is Constructed. Politics, 3(2), 45–56.
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Leigh Patel
Patel, L. (2015). Desiring Diversity and Backlash: White Property Rights in Higher Education. The Urban Review, 47(4), 657–675.
Patel, L. & Alton Price. (2016). The origins, potentials, and limits of racial justice. Critical Ethnic Studies, 2(2), 61–81.
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Mark Rifkin
Rifkin, M. (2009). Indigenizing Agamben: Rethinking sovereignty in light of the" peculiar" status of Native peoples. Cultural Critique, 73, 88–124.
Rifkin, M. (2014). Making peoples into populations: The racial limits of tribal sovereignty. In A. Simpson & A. Smith (Eds.), Theorizing native studies (pp. 149–187). Duke University Press.
Rifkin, M. (2017). Beyond settler time: Temporal sovereignty and indigenous self-determination. Duke University Press.
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Lester Rigney (Nurungga)
Rigney, L. (1999). Internationalization of an Indigenous anticolonial cultural critique of research methodologies: A guide to Indigenist research methodology and its principles. Wicazo Sa Review, 14(2), 109–121.
Rigney, L. (2001). A first perspective of Indigenous Australian participation in science: Framing Indigenous research towards Indigenous Australian intellectual sovereignty. Kaurna Higher Education Journal, 7, 1–13.
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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg)
Simpson, L. B. (2011). Dancing on our turtle’s back: Stories of Nishnaabeg re-creation, resurgence and a new emergence. Arbeiter Ring Pub.
Simpson, L. B. (2016). Indigenous Resurgence and Co-resistance. Critical Ethnic Studies, 2(2), 19–34.
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake (2017) “Endlessly Creating Our Indigenous Selves.” In As We Have Always Done, 83–94. Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance. University of Minnesota Press. Konsmo, Erin Marie, and AM Kahealani Pacheco (2016) “Violence on the Land, Violence on Our Bodies: Building an Indigenous Response to Environmental Violence.” Women’s Earth Alliance Native Youth Sexual Health Network
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Audra Simpson (Kahnawake Mohawk)
Simpson, A. (2016). Whither settler colonialism? Settler Colonial Studies, 6(4), 438–445.
Simpson, A. (2017). The ruse of consent and the anatomy of ‘refusal’: Cases from indigenous North America and Australia. Postcolonial Studies, 20(1), 18–33.
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Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Porou, Māori)
Smith, G. H., & Smith, L. T. (2019). Doing Indigenous work: Decolonizing and transforming the academy. In E. McKinley & L. T. Smith (Eds.), Handbook of Indigenous education (pp. 1075–1101). Springer.
Smith, L. T. (2012). Decolonizing methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples (2nd ed.). Zed Books.
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Eric Ritskes
Sium, A., & Ritskes, E. (2013). Speaking truth to power: Indigenous storytelling as an act of living resistance. Decolonization: indigeneity, education & Society, 2(1).
Martineau, J., & Ritskes, E. (2014). Fugitive indigeneity: Reclaiming the terrain of decolonial struggle through Indigenous art. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 3(1).
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Professor Stefano Harney
Harney, S., & Moten, F. (2013). Blackness and Governance. In The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (pp. 44–57). Minor Compositions
Moten, F. & Harney, S., (2004). The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses. Social Text, 22(2), 101–115.
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Dr Natalie Harkin (Narungga)
Harkin, N. (2016). On Grandmother stories and creative resilience. Overland, 223(Winter), 12-13.
Harkin, N. (2014). The Poetics of (Re) Mapping Archives: Memory in the Blood. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 14(3).
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Paola Balla (Wemba-Wemba / Gunditjmara)
Balla, Paola (2018). Walking in deadly blak women's footprints. Artlink, 38(2), 22-29.
Balla, Paola (2016) “Sovereignty: Inalienable and Intimate Paola Balla.” In Sovereignty, edited by Paola Balla and Max Delany. Melbourne: ACCA.
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Other Authors
Araluen Corr, E. (2018). Silence and resistance: Aboriginal women working within and against the archive. Continuum, 32(4), 487-502.
Curtis, B. N. (2015). Kungakunga: Staying close to family and country. Colouring the Rainbow: Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives–Life Stories and Essays by First Nations People of Australia.
Bennett, L., & Moreton, R. (2020). Looking for murnong. Artlink, 40(2), 96-100.
Birch, A. (2007) “‘The Invisible Fire’: Sovereignty, History and Responsibility.” In Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters, edited by Aileen Moreton-Robinson, 105–17. NSW: Allen & Unwin.
Couzens, Vicki, and Lee Darroch. "Possum skin cloaks as a vehicle for healing in Aboriginal communities in the south-east of Australia." Urban Representations: Cultural expression, identity and politics (2012): 63.
Episkenew, J.-A. (2009). Taking back our spirits: Indigenous literature, public policy, and healing. Univ. of Manitoba Press.
Fredericks, B. L. (2009). The epistemology that maintains white race privilege, power and control of Indigenous Studies and Indigenous peoples’ participation in universities. Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association EJournal, 5(1), 1–12.
Grande, S. (2018). Refusing the university. In E. Tuck & K. W. Yang (Eds.), Toward what justice? Describing diverse dreams of justice in education (pp. 47–65). Routledgeanthropology, sociology, sex, crime, religion and education (Vol. 2). D. Appleton.
Hogarth, M. (2017). Speaking back to the deficit discourses: A theoretical and methodological approach. The Australian Educational Researcher, 44(1), 21–34.
Hunt, S. (2014). Ontologies of indigeneity: The politics of embodying a concept. Cultural Geographies, 21(1), 27–32.
Indigenous Youth Sexual Health Network and Native Women’s Alliance. (2018). Violence on the land: Violence on our bodies. In M. Greenwood, S. De Leeuw, & N. M. Lindsay (Eds.), Determinants of Indigenous peoples’ health: Beyond the social (pp. 204–223). Canadian Scholars.
King, T. L. (2019). The Black shoals: Offshore formations of Black and Native studies. Duke University Press.
Kuokkanen, R. (2008). Globalization as racialized, sexualized violence: The case of indigenous women. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 10(2), 216–233.
López, L. L. L., & Coello, G. (2020). Brown, Red, and Black to the Futures. In Indigenous Futures and Learnings Taking Place (pp. 172-183). Routledge.
Nixon, L. (2020). Visual Cultures of Indigenous Futurism. In T. Lethabo King, J. Navarro, & A. Smith (Eds.), Otherwise worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness (pp. 332–342). Duke University Press.
Tauri, J. M., & Porou, N. (2014). Criminal Justice as a Colonial Project in Settler-Colonialism. African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies, 8(1), 20–37.
Te Punga Somerville, A. (2020). OMG settler colonial studies: Response to Lorenzo Veracini: ‘Is Settler Colonial Studies Even Useful?’ Postcolonial Studies, 1–5.
Todd, Z. (2016). An indigenous feminist’s take on the ontological turn:‘Ontology’is just another word for colonialism. Journal of Historical Sociology, 29(1), 4–22.
Vizenor, G. R. (1998). Fugitive poses: Native American Indian scenes of absence and presence. U of Nebraska Press.
Weheliye, A. G. (2014). Habeas viscus: Racializing assemblages, biopolitics, and black feminist theories of the human. Duke University Press.
Womack, Y. (2013). Afrofuturism: The world of black sci-fi and fantasy culture. Chicago Review Press.